A Cuban woman showed in a video posted on TikTok on Wednesday the rice, mango, cassava, and cherries that spoiled in her refrigerator due to power outages, foods she had set aside for herself and her children that very day.
In the 38-second clip, the user @la.cubanita621 tours with the camera each of the spoiled foods while dismissing any call for resignation: "Look, for someone to come and talk to me about revolution and tell me about enduring and resisting. Resist. What?"
The woman emphasizes that those products were not a gift, but the result of her own hard work: "Look at the spoiled mangoes, spoiled cherries that no one gives away. It's effort."
The video concludes with a warning laden with desperation: "If this continues to be played, it will explode. This. This has no name."
In the description of the clip, the author was even more direct in her rejection of the government: "I’m fed up with all the bastards who have the people living in misery," she wrote, accompanying the post with the hashtags #miseriacuba and #patriayvida.
The testimony arises amidst an electrical crisis that on July 1 recorded a deficit of approximately 2,100 MW, with an availability of barely 1,100 MW against a demand of 3,200 MW.
The power outages last between 20 and 30 hours daily in Havana, while in Santiago de Cuba and the Isle of Youth, electricity is available for only one or two hours a day. In Matanzas, power cuts of up to 87 consecutive hours were reported during June.
The loss of food due to the break in the cold chain is a widespread and documented consequence. According to the Food Monitor Program, 47.59% of Cuban households lost refrigerated food due to blackouts, a figure that exceeds 80% in provinces such as Granma, Matanzas, Pinar del Río, and Sancti Spíritus.
The organization warns that the situation in 2026 is "much more alarming" than in 2025, and indicates that 96.91% of the population lacks adequate access to food.
One in three Cuban households had at least one member who went to bed hungry in the last month, according to the same data.
The case of this Cuban woman is not isolated. In June, another woman identified as Adriela Feito Hernández published a similar video showing a spoiled chicken, which garnered 55,000 views on Facebook. Testimonials from Cuban women recounting the pain of throwing away spoiled food have become a recurring phenomenon on social media.
Behind the crisis is a collapsing thermal power infrastructure: 106 distributed generation plants are shut down due to a lack of diesel, resulting in a loss of 890 MW, and Cuba has gone four consecutive months without receiving Venezuelan oil.
The record for electric deficit so far in 2026 was registered on June 25, when the shortfall reached 2,208 MW, leaving 70% of the national territory without electricity simultaneously.
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